Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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zibar, is little better than condemning tliem to
penal servitude, and is a positive injustice.
You
may rescue tlie London street Arab from tlie
profligacy of a locality, or the barbarous treatment
of parents or neighbours, and captive
mountebank children from the cruel bondage of
their torturers, but to lock them up for life in
a reformatory, which you only do for a limited
time even when they have committed some
crime, would surely not be freeing them. On
such ground, therefore, I say that we are bound
to establish a depot or depots on the mainland
for all liberated Africans.
Mr. Vivian in answer to a question as to the
possibility of taking them back to their own
country, said, " I think, however, it is very
doubtful whether we are justified in taking those
slaves into our Colonies ourselves ; I think it
justly lays us open to the charge of making use
of our crusade against the slave-trade for our
own purpose." But why not create a colony
for them in their own country? It has been
suggested that the liberated slaves should be
placed at Zanzibar, but even supposing Zanzibar